loving - Story 86013 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The announcement had been made. His sister, Maya, was embracing a new path. David felt a rush of something akin to joy, a soft thrumming in his chest. Maya was always searching, always questioning. He knew how important this was to her. He watched her across the dinner table, the candlelight casting dancing shadows on her face. Her voice, usually sharp and witty, was gentle. David offered a toast, his glass clinking against hers. “To Maya,” he said, his voice thick with emotion. He felt his face flush as she returned the gaze, her eyes glistening.

Emotion: loving

Cluster: Compassion / Love

PC1 (Valence): 3.72 Positive

PC2 (Disposition): -0.41

Role in Research

This story is one of 1,000 stories generated for the emotion loving. During extraction, it was fed through Gemma4-31B and its hidden state activations were captured at 11 layers.

The mean activation across all 1,000 loving stories, after denoising with neutral dialogue baselines, produces the loving emotion vector -- a direction in the model's 5,376-dimensional representation space.

Logit Lens (Layer 40)

Tokens promoted/suppressed when the loving vector is projected through the unembedding matrix.

Promoted:

`la`	0.604
`affectionately`	0.532
`함께`	0.504
`🥰`	0.459
`loving`	0.440

Suppressed:

`не`	-0.484
`S`	-0.458
`worse`	-0.457
`[]`	-0.438
`😖`	-0.417